When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited pre-teen daughter Flora to the wilderness of 19th-century New Zealand, she finds herself locked in a battle of wills with both her controlling husband and a rugged frontiersman to whom she develops a forbidden attraction.

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Cast

Holly Hunter

Ada McGrath

Harvey Keitel

George Baines

Sam Neill

Alisdair Stewart

Anna Paquin

Flora McGrath

Cliff Curtis

Mana

Kerry Walker

Aunt Morag

Ian Mune

Reverend

Geneviève Lemon

Nessie

Pete Smith

Hone

Bruce Allpress

Blind Piano Tuner

Rose McIver

Angel

Verity George

Bluebeard's Wife